While the several existing 3D printing pen ventures appear to be successful, CreoPop hopes to shake things up with a breakthrough technology.

The 3D printing pens we’ve seen so far have had two key attributes:

They’re very popular, possibly due to their low price as compared to a full-on 3D printer

They all use plastic extrusion technology

It’s the last bit that’s interesting. The existing pens pull in a plastic filament and heat it up to 200-250C and push it out the hot end.

CreoPop is entirely different. Instead of heating up plastic, they solidify liquid resin using UV light. A tiny UV light source hits the resin as it leaves the pen. No heat. No straggly filaments tangled up in your arms. It is USB-powered, so you will have a cable to deal with.

It will be substantially safer for children's use, since you don't have to worry about a six year old wielding a 250C portable weapon.

And there’s another benefit: the resins may have not only different colors, but different properties. CreoPop is working on these “specialty inks”:

Temperature sensitive

Elastic

Body (We’re not quite certain what this might be)

Glittering

Conductive

Glow-in-the-Dark

Magnetic

Aromatic

“And more”

At a starting price of only USD$89, CreoPop is an inexpensive way to enter the world of 3D making.

Kerry Stevenson, aka "General Fabb" has been writing Fabbaloo posts since he launched the venture in 2007, with an intention to promote and grow the incredible technology of 3D printing across the world. So far, it seems to be working!

Fabbaloo is a daily online publication focusing on the 3D print and additive manufacturing industries. We provide deeper analysis of developments in current and future technologies as well as corporate matters. If there’s something happening in 3D technologies, especially FDM, SLA, SLS and Stereolithography, we’ll have an opinion about it.